What are the limitations that we place upon God? Where do those limitations come from? Are they a failure of our imagination, or are they a failure of our vision? Are they our own inability, projected onto God?
What circumstances do we decide that God is unable to address? How many situations in our own lives or in our own world do we think are beyond God’s abilities? Our lack of faith makes us think this way.
But Jesus says to us, Wait until you see what is possible for God even when mankind is sinful. What is possible for his forgiveness? What can it do? What can it create? What can it recreate?
Don’t set limits on God and on God’s ability simply because you know the limits of your own existence. Each of us needs to expand our heart to take in all that God is capable of, and trust that God can. For his will will be done, and if we believe, it will be done in us.
--Fr. Patrick Michaels, Homily, March 13, 2024
Image source: William Blake, illustrations of the Book of Job, The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind (1805-1806), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_Illustrations_of_the_Book_of_Job#/media/File:The_Lord_Answering_Job_Out_of_the_Whirlwind_Butts_set.jpg For additional commentary on this passage, see: https://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2015/06/22/commentary-on-job-38-42-job-meets-god/
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